New Zealand will have a center-left coalition government led by the nation’s youngest prime minister in more than 150 years. When New Zealanders voted in a general election almost a month ago, neither of the two major parties, the center-right National party, which had been in power for nearly a decade and won more seats […]
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USAlas vegas shooter note The suite rented by Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock will remain locked indefinitely as hotel employees work to preserve evidence related to the shooting. MGM Resorts International, which owns and operates the resort and casino, announced Thursday that they will not rent the 32nd-floor room following the Oct. 1 massacre that
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USAA key member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has joined a chorus of congressional Democrats calling for Ivanka Trump’s security clearances to be reviewed because her failure to fully divest herself from her business empire poses serious potential for conflicts of interest. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the ranking member of the GOP-controlled committee, is
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USAWASHINGTON – Patrick Kennedy, it seemed, had been waiting for a public opportunity speak directly to the nation’s health insurers. “The historic treatment of addiction and mental illness has been a separate and unequal process,” the former Rhode Island congressman and a member of the president’s opioid commission told a group of insurance executives on
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAA senior North Korean official said in Moscow Friday that Pyongyang does not plan to discuss its nuclear program with the U.S., insisting Washington would have “have to put up” with the reality it possesses nuclear weapons. “This is a matter of life and death for us,” North Korean Foreign Ministry official Choe Son-hui told
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International, USAThe US Central Intelligence Agency thinks that North Korea’s Kim Jong-un is a rational actor who is focused on staying in power and “waking up in his own bed” each day. But if Kim should suddenly not show up for work, well, don’t ask US spy chief Mike Pompeo about it. “With respect to, if
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International, USAWASHINGTON — The government of Mexico has aligned itself with municipalities suing the state of Texas over a new law that, if implemented, would crack down on sanctuary cities, arguing that the state’s action hurts Mexico’s relationship with Washington. Lawyers for the Mexican government argue that Texas Senate Bill 4 creates unnecessary tension in relations
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International, USABy Anna L. Peterson, Professor of Religion, University of Florida. Once in a while, life provides us with the kind of dramatic moral dilemma that even the most imaginative ethics textbook writer couldn’t think up. Presently, my community – the University of Florida and the city of Gainesville – faces a dangerous and complicated series
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USAUmar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who tried to blow up a US-bound aircraft in 2009 with explosives hidden in his underwear, has sued the US Justice department for alleged mistreatment in prison. Sentenced to life in a hyper-secure Colorado “Supermax” prison, Abdulmutallab said in a suit filed Wednesday that he had been denied contact with
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International, USARep. Frederica Wilson on Friday accused White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly of lying about her and using a “racist term” when he publicly admonished her for politicizing the president’s condolence call to a Special Forces’ widow. Mr. Kelly, a retired Marine general whose son was killed in action in Afghanistan, on Thursday
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USAThe Scaramucci Post has re-posted a Twitter poll about the Holocaust that generated so much criticism earlier this week that the founders pulled it down and apologized. The controversy and condemnations began Tuesday, when the self-described news outlet helmed by the short-term former White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, shared a multiple-choice survey asking how
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USAJACKSON-Larry Schuster was appointed just over one week ago to the troubled Jackson Township zoning board, but this week resigned, before his first meeting. Schuster, the owner of Schuster’s Car Wash in Toms River cited family obligations for his resignation. “Today I resigned my position as a zoning board member before the first meeting. I
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USAFor the third consecutive ranking, Chicago is the worst city in America for rats, according to a new study from the pest control company Orkin. It ranked cities by the number of rodent treatments the company performed over the past year. Rodent season is upon us… Fall is the start of rodent season, so unwanted
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USAAnna Kuhn wants to grow up to be a mermaid television news reporter. So naturally the 6-year-old was drawn to two mermaids she discovered sunbathing on the rocks in front of the Boca Beach Club. Later at the pool, they even outfitted her with a mermaid tail for good measure. She didn’t have much to
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